Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Polish Plane Hijacked
Tully's most startling assertion is that months in advance of the event a Polish traitor handed a U.S. Defense Department agent detailed plans of last year's Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. Intelligence strategists, Tully asserts, then imaginatively suggested making the plans public in an effort to force a Russian change of heart. As Tully tells it, Washington overruled the idea on grounds that the U.S. could not afford such dangerous brinkmanship during the Viet...
...answer would have been laughably obvious. By 1968, however, things had changed. A "new Nixon" appeared on television with the kind of polish that could sell a used car to an Amish elder. The inevitable question arose from cynics and supporters alike: How come...
Gradual Freeze. Bound by Communist orthodoxy, the country's new rulers have ordered a return to highly centralized planning, and they have threatened loafing workers with "ideological training"-a euphemism for force. The government has brought in Yugoslav construction crews, Polish textile workers and Hungarian railroad men, and called on Czech workers to work "voluntary" weekend shifts to commemorate Lenin's 100th birthday next year. The notion ironically harks back to the freely given "Dubček shifts" that workers put in during their brief springtime of freedom. Otherwise, the occupation regime's tinkering with the economy...
Paul J. Corkery '68 will work under Roberts and Williamson as a full-time research assistant. Corkery. a former Supplement Editor of the CRI.M.SOx, said his first project will be analysis of the House's begin by asking, 'What is the equivalent of the Polish vote?" he said...